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The Modern World: Ten Great Writers, Franz Kafka

  This ground-breaking video series combines drama, documentary and critical analysis by renowned authors and critics – including Anthony Burgess, V.S. Pritchett, and Frank Kermode – to illustrate the works Read More

The Open Door

  The film explores a middle-class Egyptian girl’s coming of age, against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egyptian revolution.  It examines women’s rights in Read More

I Am Free

  I am Free is associated with the onset of a feminist context to Egyptian films in the 1960s. The film is also known as part of Salah Abu Seif’s Read More

Apples From the Desert

  Inspired by the award-winning play of the same name, this poignant drama centers around Rivka (Moran Rosenblatt), the only child of Ultra Orthodox Jewish (Sephardic) parents from Jerusalem, who Read More

Three Monks

  Three Monks is a Chinese animated short film produced by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS).  A young monk lives a simple life on a hilltop Buddhist temple. He Read More

TV Drama from China

  In China, TV drama is a very new media, but it has already proved to be extremely popular among the country’s audiences. The three most common formats are the Read More

China Kaleidoscope Video Series

  A video magazine of issues in contemporary Chinese society and culture. China Kaleidoscope consists of reports from some of China’s best news and information programs. Collected, edited, and translated Read More

Scenery of China – Parts 1 & 2

  China has a vast territory with hundreds of picturesque mountains and rivers. The Qinghai Tibet Plateau: for example, is known as ”The roof of the world.”  Many other places Read More

Amazing Marriage Customs

  Records special features in marriage customs of various Chinese nationalities.  Witness wedding ceremonies from around the globe in this fascinating documentary.

3000 Nights

  The story begins in 1980 Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, with the brutal, middle-of-the-night arrest of newly married schoolteacher Layal (Maisa Abd Elhadi). Her crime: giving a ride Read More